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Pediatric emergency care

Year: 2020
Articles in SafetyLit: 44

Abusive head trauma and a delay in presentation for care

Amitriptyline intoxication in children: twenty years' experience in a tertiary care center in Turkey

Are complex skull fractures indicative of either child abuse or major trauma in the era of 3-dimensional computed tomography imaging?

Association of risk of mortality in pediatric patients transferred from scene by helicopter with major but not minor injuries

Before disaster strikes: a pilot intervention to improve pediatric trainees' knowledge of disaster medicine

Characteristics of diagnosed concussions in children aged 0 to 4 years presenting to a large pediatric healthcare network

Computed tomography scan utilization in pediatric trauma: impact on length of stay and incidence of false positive findings

Determining intentionality of pediatric firearm injuries by International Classification of Disease code

Diagnostic discordance in pediatric critical care transport: a single-center experience

Do victims of abusive head trauma visit emergency departments more often than children hospitalized for fever? A case-control study

Emergency department visits for behavioral health concerns after sexual assault: a retrospective mixed methods study

Emergent mental health visits to a pediatric hospital: impact on firearm storage practices

Epidemiology of pediatric upper extremity fractures in tertiary care center in Switzerland

Fracture-associated bruising and soft tissue swelling in young children with skull fractures: how sensitive are they to fracture presence?

Fractures presumed to be low risk for abuse in young mobile children: association with concomitant suspicious injuries

Handlebar hernia: an uncommon traumatic abdominal hernia

Helmets protect pediatric bicyclists from head injury and do not increase risk of cervical spine injury

Hydrocarbon intoxication in children: clinical and sociodemographic characteristics

Identifying predictors of physical abuse evaluation of injured infants: opportunities to improve recognition

Impact of pediatric emergency care applied research network rules on admission, cranial computed tomography and skull x-ray rates in a Central European hospital

Implementation of pediatric emergency care applied research network guidelines for traumatic brain injury in a rural tertiary care center

Incorporating a trauma-informed care protocol into pediatric trauma evaluation: the pediatric PAUSE does not delay imaging or disposition

Intentional poisoning in pediatric patients: examining the risk factors

Pediatric heatstroke fatalities caused by being left in motor vehicles

Pediatric intentional self-poisoning evaluated in the emergency department: an international study

Pediatric lamp oil injuries treated in US emergency departments

Pediatric trauma arrival times and the swing shift

Pediatric trauma readiness: a trauma-specific assessment to complement the National Pediatric Readiness Project

Performance of the BIG score in predicting mortality in normotensive children with trauma

Periocular facial scald burns in children: is ophthalmology consultation necessary?

Pinna bruising in children

Point-of-care ultrasound used to diagnose sternal fractures missed by conventional imaging

Predictors of false-negative focused assessment with sonography for trauma examination in pediatric blunt abdominal trauma

Prevalence of abuse and additional injury in young children with rib fractures as their presenting injury

Prevalence of cyberbullying in patients presenting to the pediatric emergency department

Role of salivary biomarkers in predicting significant traumatic brain injury: an exploratory study

Screening for intimate partner violence in a pediatric ED: a quality improvement initiative

Self-reported symptoms of anxiety predict positive suicide risk screening in adolescents presenting to the emergency department

The association of Glasgow Coma Scale Score with clinically important traumatic brain injuries in children

The feasibility of using comic-based concussion discharge instructions: gauging likeability and knowledge improvement among adolescents and parents

The use of PECARN and CATCH rules in children with minor head trauma presenting to emergency department 24 hours after injury

Unintentional pediatric poisoning exposures in an emergency department: a comparison of poison control center referrals and caregiver self-referred visits

When parents hit: providing education to physician trainees about corporal punishment through a pilot simulation and debriefing

Which clinical features of children on initial presentation to the emergency department with head injury are associated with clinically important traumatic brain injury, classification as abuse, and poor prognosis?